{"id":10288,"date":"2009-08-01T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2009\/08\/01\/windows-mobile-name-to-remain-after-all\/"},"modified":"2009-08-01T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T15:05:00","slug":"%e2%80%98windows-mobile%e2%80%99-name-to-remain-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10288","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Windows Mobile\u2019 Name to Remain After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 2px 15px 10px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Windows Mobile\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Windows Mobile\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/windowsmobilelogo.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"163\" \/> We were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2009\/07\/30\/windows-mobile-to-become-windows-phone-maybe\/\">never sold on the notion<\/a> that Microsoft would dump the name Windows Mobile when referring to the company\u2019s mobile OS.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Brighthand Editor Ed Hardy just posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brighthand.com\/default.asp?newsID=15484&amp;news=Microsoft+Windows+Mobile\" >story<\/a> quoting Microsoft group products manager for Windows Mobile Scott D. Rockfeld clarifying the \u201cWindows Mobile \/ Windows Phone\u201d naming issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">We introduced the term &quot;Windows Phone&quot; to the industry at Mobile World Congress as a way to make it easy for consumers to identify the set of phones with Windows software and services on them. However, we will still use the term &quot;Windows Mobile&quot; to identify the operating system releases (e.g. &#8211; 6.1, 6.5). But ultimately, we want customers to be able to go into a retail store and say, &quot;I want a Windows phone!&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">So, <em>Windows Phone<\/em> will, indeed, be the latest Microsoft term for smartphones powered by their mobile OS, but the name <em>Windows Mobile<\/em> will remain as the name of its operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> We were never sold on the notion that Microsoft would dump the name Windows Mobile when referring to the company\u2019s mobile OS.&#160;<br \/>\nBrighthand Editor Ed Hardy just posted a story quoting Microsoft group products manager for Windows Mobile Scott D. Rockfeld clarifying the \u201cWindows Mobile \/ Windows Phone\u201d naming issue:<br \/>\nWe introduced the term &#34;Windows [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}